The table of contents is expanded to two levels.

  • Chapter 1: How to Learn Something New 1
    • Learning Cycle 2
    • Driving force behind the cycle: Motivation 7
    • Three ways to gather information 15
    • What is Abstract 29
    • How to abstract 39
    • Verification 44
    • Summary 47
  • Chapter 2: How to motivate 49
    • 65% of unmotivated people are not able to focus on one task 50
    • Prioritizationā€ is a difficult task in itself 55
    • Motivate one task 67
    • Summary 74
  • Chapter 3: How to Train Your Memory 75
    • How memory works 76
    • What Memory and Muscle Have in Common 79
    • Becomes stronger with repeated use 84
    • Output exercises memory 86
    • Interval repetition method that prolongs knowledge 91
    • Summary 101
  • Chapter 4: How to Read Efficiently 103
    • What is ā€œreading?ā€ 104
    • What is your usual reading speed? 108
    • How to ā€œfindā€ readings in less than 2 seconds per page 115
    • Over 3 minutes per page to ā€œassembleā€ readings 126
    • Designing the Task of Reading 133
    • Summary 141
  • Chapter 5: How to organize your thoughts 143
    • Too much information? Too little? 144
    • How to organize too much information 149
    • Tuning for Working People 170
    • It is important to repeat the process 173
    • Summary 177
  • Chapter 6: How to Come Up with Ideas 179
    • Coming up with ideasā€ is a big, vague task 180
    • First, gather information 187
    • Polishing 208
    • Summary 219
  • Chapter 7: How to Decide What to Learn 221
    • What is the right thing to learn? 222
    • Self-Management Strategies 228
    • Creating Knowledge 243

3 levels

  • Chapter 1: How to Learn Something New 1

    • Learning Cycle 2
      • Information Gathering 3
      • Modeling and Abstraction 3
      • Practice/Verification 5
    • Driving force behind the cycle: Motivation 7
      • Differences between learning as a student and learning from college 7
      • How to stay motivated? 10
      • Should I re-enter college? 12
      • Tips for finding good reference books 13
      • Tips for choosing paper reference books 14
    • Three ways to gather information 15
      • From where you want to know 16
      • Prerequisites for learning from what you want to know 18
      • Roughly 20
      • From one end to the other 25
    • What is Abstract 29
      • abstract 30
      • Models & Models 31
      • Module 32
      • Model View Controller 33
      • Finding Patterns 34
      • Design Patterns 35
      • Why is abstraction necessary? 37
    • How to abstract 39
      • Compare and learn 39
      • Learning from History 42
      • Learning from Pattern Books 43
    • Verification 44
      • Made and verified 45
      • Verified by testing 46
      • Areas of Difficulty in Verification 47
    • Summary 47
  • Chapter 2: How to motivate 49

    • 65% of unmotivated people are not able to focus on one task 50
      • Letā€™s first get the big picture to narrow it down 51
      • Getting Things Done: Gathering It All First 51
      • Collect them all and process them afterwards 52
      • How do you choose one task 53
    • Prioritizationā€ is a difficult task in itself 55
      • Sorting computation 55
      • Cannot compare large and small without one dimension 56
      • What is the magnitude of the uncertainty? 57
      • Prioritize important matters 62
      • Donā€™t try to set priorities now 66
    • Motivate one task 67
      • Tasks are too large 67
      • Time Box 68
    • Summary 74
  • Chapter 3: How to Train Your Memory 75

    • How memory works 76
      • Hippocampus 76
      • People who have had their hippocampus removed 77
      • Morris water maze 77
      • There is more than one kind of memory 78
    • What Memory and Muscle Have in Common 79
      • Synapses that carry signals 80
      • Long-term potentiation of synapses 82
      • First, make it in a way that is easy to disappear, and then gradually change to a method that lasts longer 83
    • Becomes stronger with repeated use 84
    • Output exercises memory 86
      • Testing is a means of memory 86
      • Test and then learn more 87
      • Not confident, but high grades 87
      • Adaptive boosting 88
      • Fast test cycle 90
    • Interval repetition method that prolongs knowledge 91
      • Review after forgetting 91
      • Leitner System 92
      • Ease of the problem 93
      • 20 Rules for Structuring Knowledge 94
      • Anki 95
      • Automatic adjustment of difficulty 96
      • Create your own teaching materials 97
    • Summary 101
  • Chapter 4: How to Read Efficiently 103

    • What is ā€œreading?ā€ 104
      • Purpose of reading books 104
      • Types and speed of ā€œreadingā€ 108
    • What is your usual reading speed? 108
      • Pyramid of reading speed 109
      • Where is the bottleneck? 110
      • The Suffering of Speed Reading 112
      • Not read 113
    • How to ā€œfindā€ readings in less than 2 seconds per page 115
      • Whole Mind System 117
      • Focused Reading 120
      • Attention to headings, etc. 123
    • Over 3 minutes per page to ā€œassembleā€ readings 126
      • How to Read Philosophy Books 126
      • Spend 40 hours per book to read 128
      • How to read a math book 130
    • Designing the Task of Reading 133
      • Understanding is an Uncertain Task 133
      • Reading is a means, not an end 134
      • Creating Materials for Review 137
    • Summary 141
  • Chapter 5: How to organize your thoughts 143

    • Too much information? Too little? 144
      • Check the amount of information using the write-out method 145
    • How to organize too much information 149
      • Line them up for better listing 149
      • Record as soon as you think of it in the process of arranging 152
      • Move the possibly related items closer together 152
      • Group formation requires a change in thinking 155
      • What is a relationship 160
      • Bundled, fronted, and compressed 162
      • Spread the bundled fusions out again 169
      • Written output 169
    • Tuning for Working People 170
      • Omission of step 171
      • Interruptible design 171
      • How to organize A4 documents 172
    • It is important to repeat the process 173
      • Repeat KJ method 174
      • Repeat triggers 174
      • Incremental Improvements 174
      • Regroup past output 175
      • Electronic 176
    • Summary 177
  • Chapter 6: How to Come Up with Ideas 179

    • Coming up with ideasā€ is a big, vague task 180
      • Three phases of coming up with ideas 180
      • The Predecessorā€™s Way of Thinking 181
    • First, gather information 187
      • Exploring Within Yourself 187
      • How to encourage language 188
      • Somatic sensation 191
      • Parables, Metaphors, and Analogies 194
      • What has not yet been put into words 200
      • Summary of Linguistics 207
    • Polishing 208
      • Minimum feasible product 208
      • Climbing the U curve 210
      • Other Peopleā€™s Perspectives Matter 212
      • Learn from anyone 213
      • Build a time machine. 215
      • Plowing again 217
    • Summary 219
  • Chapter 7: How to Decide What to Learn 221

    • What is the right thing to learn? 222
      • Mathematical Correctness 222
      • Differences in Correctness between Science and Mathematics 224
      • Correctness of Decision Making 226
    • Self-Management Strategies 228
      • Search strategy to find a subject to learn 229
      • Using Knowledge for Expansion and Reproduction Strategies 230
      • Differentiation Strategies for Excellence 231
      • Differentiation Strategies through Combination 235
      • Trade Commercial Strategies for Knowledge Across Organizational Boundaries 240
    • Creating Knowledge 243

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